After bagging a pair of Oscar nominations for Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill look set to reunite for the tale of Richard Jewell, a security guard whose life was torn apart by the media after discovering a bomb in the Olympic compound in Atlanta back in 1996 and being falsely pinpointed as a potential suspect.
According to Deadline, Fox has acquired the rights to the story, which will be based upon a Vanity Fair article entitled ‘The Ballad of Richard Jewell’ by Marie Brenner, who also provided the source material for Michael Mann’s The Insider. Hill will play Jewell while DiCaprio (who’s also producing under his Appian Way banner) will portray a lawyer who helps to guide Jewell through the nightmare scenario.
Originally published February 4, 2014. Updated April 11, 2018.
